8. What is the only part of the U.S. Constitution that cannot be amended? A.

The requirement that the president must be a natural-born citizen.

The provision forbidding state governments from passing laws impairing the obligation of contracts.

The requirement that each state has equal representation in the Senate.

Everything can be amended.

B. C. D. ANSWERS:

1-C, 2-A, 3-D, 4-B, 5-B, 6-A, 7-A, 8-C

There was some good economic news in the headlines recently, in case you missed it. Our staff writer Katie Wedell reported on some welcome upticks in family financial statistics.

“Median household income in the United States is up for the second consecutive year, rising to possibly the highest level ever recorded, according to new numbers released by the U.S. Census,” she wrote. “The national poverty rate in 2016 was back to a pre-recession level for the first time with 12.7 percent of the population — 40.6 million people — living in poverty. That’s 2.5 million fewer than in 2015.

“And the percentage of the population that is uninsured declined to 8.8 percent, down from 9.1 percent in 2015,” Wedell wrote. Additionally, “The femaleto-male earnings gap narrowed for the first time since to before the recession. In 2016, females earned 80.5 percent of what males did.”

So, what’s in your wallet? Drop me a line at rrollins@coxohio.com.